Why is this happening to my CF8 installation?

[cis4life]

Hello,

I  recently purchased a server with Windows 2008 Standard edtion and I purchased a copy of CF8 Standard.  Installed CF8 on the server and all went well.  Added a site to the server via IIS and the site shows up and everything, EXCEPT for on the contact page i have a textarea with richtext on.  On my dev box it showed up fine and worked fine, on the server it doesn't??? PLUS things such as making textboxes required with messages don't work (it will render the CFML, but won't show the richtext box or the js alert when a required field is missing), but on my dev box (which is my MacBook with CF8 installed) it worked fine. 

So I think to myself what would cause this, and decide to uninstall CF8 and reinstall CF8 (maybe a hosed installation)  GUESS WHAT, now all the CF code works on the server as well now.  So now I'm happy and go to build another site on the server.  GUESS WHAT, same thing.  The original site now works fine, but the new site isn't rendering the richtext boxes and the alerts from required fields aren't working. 

What would cause this.  Is it something im doing??? is it Windows 2008???

Please Advise, cause I about to pull my hair out.  I can't keep uninstalling and reinstalling CF8 to make my sites work 100% with CF8

Thanks,
Cedric

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cis4life wrote:

.. things such as making textboxes required with messages don't work (it will render the CFML, but won't show the richtext box or the js alert when a required field is missing),

It is most likely a mapping problem:

http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:59801#324820

[cis4life]

Ok,

I read the response and I understand exactly what they are saying, but I'm new to this server side of things.  How do I map the \CFIDE\Scripts to my website in IIS (Windows 2008 Standard / IIS 7.0)

Is there a quick how to or tutorial that explans how to do this?

Thanks for your help thus far,

Cedric

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There is a ton of them.  While not all IIS7 specific, the basic steps are the same. Just google IIS virtual directory.

Examples

http://www.hostmysite.com/support/dedicated/IIS/virtualdirectory/

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172138